Topic: Should we all buy a Bitcoin Pizza? - page 3. (Read 465 times)

But have you every done a payment IRL?

I use Bitcoin to pay wherever it's possible. Especially online, IRL isn't possible very often.

In 2010 forum user lazlo payed 10.000 BTC to buy Pizza for him and his family, this would later become famous under the name of "Bitcoin Pizza Day". As the days is now approaching again I was thinking about how bitcoin and especially the community has evolved since then. In my opinion there is an incredible amount of smart people that hold coins and try to make the bitcoin ecosystem better and better. Those users many times strongly believe that bitcoin is better than fiat money, but not so many of them actually use Bitcoin in everyday payments. It is even a good behavior under bitcoin enthusiasts, to hold Bitcoins and never spend them. Most of that users would not pay a pizza with bitcoins but instead pay it with fiat to not stop to HODL. In my opinion they want to show with that, that they believe in the future of Bitcoin but actually it stops it from being more widely adopted and just shows that it can actually not replace fiat.
So maybe everyone should once in a while stop HODL for a bit and buy something in a store or online with Bitcoin, so it is used for what it was originally designed for. In my opinion we would never celebrate a "Bitcoin Pizza Day", without users like lazlo that spend coins on real goods even if the amounts might look stupid from todays perspective. What do you think, why is there not more use of crypto in everyday scenarios?